• International privacy standards: a continuing convergence 

  Bennett, Colin J. (Privacy Laws & Business, 2010-06)

  A thorough review of the 1980 OECD Guidelines is not necessary, argues Colin Bennett. While there are differences, considerable commonalities between national laws exist.
• International privacy standards: Can accountability be adequate? 

  Bennett, Colin J. (Privacy Laws & Business, 2010-08)

  Accountability and adequacy approach should not be regarded as alternatives, as they are complementary.
• Privacy, elections and political parties: Emerging issues 

  Bennett, Colin J. (Privacy Laws & Business, 2013-06)

  As political parties in the US and Europe use ever more sophisticated targeting techniques, Colin J. Bennett asks what is the appropriate balance between privacy and the values of democratic education and participation.
• Canada’s ‘anti-spam’ law comes into force on 1 July this year 

  Bayley, Robin; Bennett, Colin J. (Privacy Laws & Business, 2014-06)

  Organisations need to obtain prior consent for sending commercial emails or text messages in Canada.
• Canada’s Supreme Court allows warrantless mobile phone search 

  Bennett, Colin J. (Privacy Laws & Business, 2015-02)

  Case affects Canadians’ expectations of mobile phone privacy.
• Canada’s Digital Privacy Act introduces breach notification et al 

  Bayley, Robin M. (Privacy Laws & Business, 2015-08)

  Robin M. Bayley and Colin J. Bennett report from Canada on the new provisions including those on enforcement.
• GPEN: A growing network but how much ‘enforcement’? 

  Bennett, Colin J. (Privacy Laws & Business, 2015-10)

  Colin J. Bennett assesses what we can expect from DPAs’ international cooperation and what has been achieved so far.
• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy: Insights from Combined Recording Studies 

  Scarapicchia, Vanessa; Brown, Cassandra; Mayo, Chantel; Gawryluk, Jodie R. (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017)

  Although blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a widely available, non-invasive technique that offers excellent spatial resolution, it remains limited by practical constraints ...
• Real and Substantial Connections: Enforcing Canadian Privacy Laws Against American Social Networking Companies 

  Bennett, Colin J.; Parsons, Christopher A.; Adam, Molnar (Journal of Law, Information & Science, 2014)

  Any organisation that captures personal data in Canada for processing is deemed to have a ‘real and substantial connection’ to Canada and thus fall within the jurisdiction of the Personal Information Protection and ...
• In further defence of privacy … 

  Bennett, Colin J. (Surveillance & Society, 2011)

  A right of reply in the privacy debate...
• Linking Regional Winter Sea Ice Thickness and Surface Roughness to Spring Melt Pond Fraction on Landfast Arctic Sea Ice 

  Nasonova, Sasha; Scharien, Randall K.; Haas, Christian; Howell, Stephen E. L. (Remote Sensing, 2017)

  The Arctic sea ice cover has decreased strongly in extent, thickness, volume and age in recent decades. The melt season presents a significant challenge for sea ice forecasting due to uncertainty associated with the role ...
• If these Canadians lived in the United States, how would they protect their privacy? 

  Bennett, Colin J.; Regan, Priscilla M.; Bayley, Robin M. (First Monday, 2017-03)

  This paper contributes to the debate about the adequacy of the United States’ fragmented, networked, federal system of privacy protection, an outlier among modern industrialized Western democracies, by taking the perspective ...
• Trends in Voter Surveillance in Western Societies: Privacy Intrusions and Democratic Implications 

  Bennett, Colin J. (Surveillance & Society, 2015)

  This paper surveys the various voter surveillance practices recently observed in the United States, assesses the extent to which they have been adopted in other democratic countries, and discusses the broad implications ...
• The politics of privacy and the privacy of politics: Parties, elections and voter surveillance in Western democracies 

  Bennett, Colin J. (First Monday, 2013-08)

  This paper surveys the various voter surveillance practices currently observed in the United States, assesses the extent to which they have been adopted in other democratic countries, and discusses the broad implications ...
• Introduction to Cyber-Surveillance 

  Bennett, Colin J.; Clement, Andrew; Milberry, Kate (Surveillance & Society, 2012)

  The rapid expansion of digital networking and especially the Internet over the past two decades has been a boon for the many informationally intensive activities that facilitate and increasingly constitute contemporary ...
• Intentional injury among the indigenous and total populations in British Columbia, Canada: Trends over time and ecological analyses of risk 

  George, M. Anne; Jin, Andrew; Brussoni, Mariana; Lalonde, Christopher E.; McCormick, Rod (International Journal for Equity in Health, 2017)

  Background: Our objective was to explore intentional injury disparity between Indigenous populations and the total population in the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada. We focus on hospitalizations, including both ...
• Promoting Crowdsourcing for Urban Research: Cycling Safety Citizen Science in Four Cities 

  Ferster, Colin; Nelson, Trisalyn; Laberee, Karen; Vanlarr, Ward; Winters, Meghan (Urban Science, 2017)

  People generate massive volumes of data on the Internet about cities. Researchers may engage these crowds to fill data gaps and better understand and inform planning decisions. Crowdsourced tools for data collection must ...
• Erratum: Nasonova, S. et al. Linking regional winter sea ice thickness and surface roughness to spring melt pond fraction on landfast artic sea ice. Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 37 

  Nasonova, Sasha; Scharien, Randall K.; Haas, Christian; Howell, Stephen E. L. (Remote Sensing, 2018)

  After publication of the research paper [1], the authors wish to make the following correction. In Figures 7, 9, 11, 12, the legend depicted first-year ice (FYI) in red, and multiyear ice (MYI) in blue. The legend should ...
• Applications of DINEOF to Satellite-Derived Chlorophyll-a from a Productive Coastal Region 

  Hilborn, Andrea; Costa, Maycira (Remote Sensing, 2018)

  A major limitation for remote sensing analyses of oceanographic variables is loss of spatial data. The Data INterpolating Empirical Orthogonal Functions (DINEOF) method has demonstrated effectiveness for filling spatial ...
• The Negative Effects of Alcohol Establishment Size and Proximity on the Frequency of Violent and Disorder Crime across Block Groups of Victoria, British Columbia 

  Fitterer, Jessica L.; Nelson, Trisalyn A.; Stockwell, Timothy (ISPRS International Journal of Geo- Information, 2018)

  Multiple studies have associated the density of alcohol establishments with crime. What is not well understood is the influence of establishment patron capacity on the magnitude of crime in an area, or how the spacing of ...

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